Yiannopoulos suffered a string of severe career setbacks in short succession today, stemming from comments he made defending pedophilia in an online video that came to light over the weekend.

In the wake of intense criticism from across the political spectrum, Yiannopoulos was disinvited from speaking this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Hours later, he lost his $250,000 book deal with Simon & Schuster, just months before his book, “Dangerous,” was set for release.

And still later in the day, news reports suggested Yiannopoulos might be fired by Breitbart.

Barring any other information, perhaps it’s easy to conclude Yiannopoulos was unfairly singled out for his political views and robbed of his free speech rights. Schilling, who is also affiliated with Breitbart, certainly did.

So he took to Twitter to state that, whatever Milo may be, at least he isn’t a pedophile or defender of pedophilia — unlike certain celebrities conservatives frequently cite as icons of the political left.

Let me see if I have this right. @lenadunham child molestor Woody Allen, sex with a minor, Roman Polanski, rapist, But Milo is the problem?

Well, there’s at least one problem: In the video, Yiannopoulos at one point referred to pubescent children as “sexually mature.” He is also recorded saying that it is possible for a 13-year-old to be the “predator” in a relationship with an adult, he joked that being molested by a priest had made him better at oral sex, and also claimed to have attended parties with high-status people in the entertainment industry at which “some of the boys there were very young.”

Yiannopoulos, in a statement, said his thoughts on relationships between young boys and adult men were inelegantly expressed and taken out of context. He also insisted that he agrees with current consent laws, and denied supporting pedophilia.

Soon after Schilling’s initial tweet, he was directed to a link containing Yiannopoulos’ shocking comments in full. At that point he changed his tune.

@TdavisTonya Well there ya go. Haven't read that or heard but if that is in fact true then I will stand humbly, and be rightfully pelted.

“How many times — and I have three boys and a daughter — how many times have you looked at a young man and said, ‘Wow, he’s a beautiful young man, wow, he’s a gorgeous young man,’” Schilling said to FBN host Trish Regan, as reported at the time by The Hill.

“Zero,” said Regan.

Said Schilling in response: “There’s no way you haven’t seen somebody else’s son and said ‘Wow, he’s beautiful.’”

Yiannopoulos, for his part, has stated that he himself is a victim of sexual abuse committed against him by an older man.